There has been much angst from the media and Democrats that Rick Scott is enrolled in the state health insurance program. Evidently this is evidence of his hyporcisy because he opposes ObamaCare.

I saw this in an AP story on the Miami Herald wet site:

“Florida has one of the highest uninsured rates in the nation, according to data released last year by the U.S. Census. Scott and other Republicans have been very critical of the health care overhaul signed by President Barack Obama that is intended to increase the number of Americans with access to health insurance. Before he ran for governor, Scott ran a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights that ran television ads criticizing the health care overhaul.”

What does that have to do with anything? Scott is a state employee. He is on the state health plan as was every governor before him. How many state employees aren’t enrolled in the program?

What governor of any state isn’t enrolled in the state health care plan?

There are continual references to the state plan being subsidized. So is my Sentinel plan. Many employers contribute to their employee’s plans.

Scott doesn’t take a salary. So on the balance sheet, he is paying more than the full cost of his coverage. Scott is subsidizing the state for his services. Now you can disagree with how he is providing those services, but that’s another matter.

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This point is, he isn’t being true to his ideology! If you’re going to talk the talk, then walk the walk. He has based his platform on streamlining government and eliminating taxpayer-subsidized “handouts.” And, in one week he has hired 7 PR people for $400k and enrolled in taxpayer-subsidized insurance. Hypocrite.

The difference is that Rick Scott is attacking public workers at every turn, eliminating benefits, reducing pay, unjustified layoffs…that is the difference. The rules do not seem to apply to him and others like him. He is a millionaire with about the cheapest plan possible…I am a 10+ year public worker that pays heavily for a family plan while struggling with a home, car, kids, and cancer! That is the difference buddy!

What people may be upset about is that he has done all he can to take away the funded insurance for all other public workers but he thaen turns around and accepts a funded insurance policy. I wish my insurance policy was only 300 a year hell i wish it was only 800 a year. I am sure more would have insurance coverage if all they had to pay was 300 a year but Rick Scott all against any insurance reform that would make that possible. As far as him not receiving pay his choice but lets not forget that he is also living for free in the governors mansion with car service maid service chef service shopping service is he paying for his electric, water, cable, so please do not say he is getting no compinsation at all we are also not stupid enough to think he is getting no pay at all. we are all sure he is getting paid.

It’s not just the cost of his healthcare. This is a man who constantly bashes teachers, cops, firemen and any other public sector employee for their “perks”. He and the GOP just gave all of the above a 3% paycut. Meantime YOU carried his water in column after column. It figures you would come to his defense again. There are teachers and others out there paying hundreds of dollars per month to cover their families. Maybe HIS healthcare ought to be brought in line with that of the private sector. The unfairness of this is amazing. Everyone should have the same quality health care from the president down to the bum on the street. Period. Here’s an idea for Sentine subscribers – cancel your subscription to help pay for your bloated health insurance costs!

I think it is a bum rap, too.
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BUT where can employees get a $30 a month family plan anymore outside of the government. Even the hospitals charge their employees more than that.
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So, a better beef would be maybe it is time to start zinging the employees for more of their healthcare costs?

This still angers me. What you overlook is that the taxpayers are subsidizing his health. If i don’t want to subsidize your healthcare i just won’t buy a Sentinel. I must, however, pay taxes. He rants about the perks of public sector employees while benefitting because he is a high ranking government employee.

This still angers me. What you overlook is that the taxpayers are subsidizing his health. If i don’t want to subsidize your healthcare i just won’t buy a Sentinel. I must, however, pay taxes. He rants about the perks of public sector employees while benefitting because he is a high ranking government employee. Hypocrite!

“This still angers me.”
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Why would it anger you that the State has tried to maintain something like the middle class? Do you want the State to turn everyone into paupers, the way private companies have done over the last 30 years?

There is no defense for Rick Scott doing what is best for him and his family and at the same time reject it for our state workers and their families. Not to mention his plan is a Rolls Royce plan and what we offer our state workers is much less. He has made it clear he is against the Government being involved with health insurance yet when it suits him it simply not OK.

Rick Scott should pay what average workers pay. The man is actively trying to block people from getting health insurance under the new health care law but takes low cost insurance for himself ssubsidized by my tax dollars.

Scott stroked a check for 70 million to buy his job. He railed against the middle class state workers for costing taxpayers too much. Now he is taking taxpayer money to subsidize his insurance. When he is trying to privatize schools, prisons, and everything else. This is a man who bilked the federal government of billions in a Medicare fraud scheme but rails against government prgrams.

I think its funny to hear all these state workers like teachers, cops , firefighters etc complain about the state retirement, no raises, 3% contribution, health insurance etc.. why dont you quit if you hate it so much? there are MANY people in the private sector who are unemployed and would like to have any kind of health insurance or retirement plan.

Here’s what’s wrong with Scott’s behavior:
* He takes a luxury benefit while seeking to deny other state employees their average benefit
* He takes a luxury health benefit while refusing to fund poverty-level benefits for the needy (refusing Medicare funds for political reasons)

So what if he saved the state his salary money? His actions still say, “I want mine, so screw you.” Giving up his salary doesn’t buy him a free pass to act badly.

Just another one of Scott’s little digs to villianize the state worker. It amazes me that all people heard out of Scott’s mouth is “I’m a State worker”, and then the media throws out there that Scott is paying $30 a month for subsidized health insurance through the state. OH PLEASE!!!! $30, that is only at the executive level and executive level alone that any state worker ONLY pays $30. Most state workers pay at least 5 times that amount. Please just get your stories straight and quit allowing Scott to put down state workers. He knows what he’s doing, he’s very sneaky.

Mike, being a regressive yourself I guess you don’t comprehend the concept of HYPOCRISY. Maybe I’ve hurt myself at times, but if I feel strongly about something, I don’t turn around and take advantage of it. Guess, I’ll never make it as a politician.